An Analysis Of Grammatical Errors In Translating Text From Indonesian Into English

Sinambela, Meri Eka Safitri (2021) An Analysis Of Grammatical Errors In Translating Text From Indonesian Into English. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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Abstract

English Study Program, Faculty Of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Islam Riau Key words: Translating Text From Indonesia to English Considering the important of grammar in learning English, especially in writing, this research aims to describe grammatical errors made by student sixth semester in Translating text from Indonesia to English. The objectives of this research are formulated to identify and classify the type of errors based on translation word which type of errors is the most dominant found in students’ translation text The research design was qualitative research that involved 20 students of the sixth semester at Universitas Islam Riau. The participants were assigned to Translating Text with less 300 words. The researcher analyzed the students’s translation by Classifing the errors based on the types of error according to Dulay, Burt, and Krashen (1982) Namely, Omission, Addition, Misformation, and misordering. Based on the result of the analysis, Totally, there are 156 errors found in the students’ writing. In term of omission, there are 45 errors which consist of omission in pronoun, verb, preposition, and article. In term of addition, there are 50 errors which consist of addition in article and preposition. While in term of misformation there are 43 errors which consist of errors in verb, preposition, and article. The last one is misordering, there is only error found. Based on these research findings, it can be seen that the most dominant type of errors in this study is misformation.

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